Charming coming of age tale from Djibouti
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Best reads – October 2020
I’ve read quite a lot this month and seen a ton of films, despite work being frantic for most of the month. I guess it’s down to the fact that we’re still staying close to home and not seeing many people due to the “second wave” (though surely it’s more a resurgence of the first […]
Review no 112: The Pear Field by Nana Ekvtimishvili (Georgia)
A Georgian novel published in 2020 by Peirene about the residents of a school for abandoned children
Review no 111: artist Alberta Whittle (Barbados)
AMERICAS AND THE CARIBBEAN This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Tate Britain awarded a Turner Prize bursary award to 10 artists, including Barbados-born artist Alberta Whittle, in place of the normal Turner Prize. She is a previous recipient of the Margaret Tait Award and this year also won the Frieze Artist Award for a […]
Review no 110: film A Screaming Man (Chad)
NORTH AFRICA (In French and Arabic with English subtitles) This October, during Black History Month in the UK, Africa in Motion (Scotland), Afrika Eye (Bristol), the Cambridge African Film Festival (CAFF), Film Africa (London) and Watch-Africa Cymru (Wales) have all come together to provide an opportunity to watch some of the best African films of the past […]
Review no 109: The Sickness by Alberto Barrera Tyszka (Venezuela)
Mordantly humorous and thoughtful short novel from a Venezuelan writer
Review no 108: Saudi Arabian film Wadjda
Unique female-directed Saudi Arabian feature film
Review no 107: On Time and Water by Andri Snaer Magnason (Iceland)
Uncomfortable read on climate change in Iceland and the likelihood of impending environmental disaster
Review no 106: Film Midnight Traveler by Hassan Fazili (Afghanistan)
moving and engaging documentary film about one family’s desperate struggle to flee Afghanistan
Review no 105: Photographer Joana Choumali (Côte d’Ivoire)
Ivorian photographer Joana Choumali laces her images with embroidery to prize-winning effect
